'Cause I ain't buyin' this....................................................
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/michael-johnson-land-surveyor
You won't believe your eyes
Holy Cow, post: 437745, member: 50 wrote: 'Cause I ain't buyin' this....................................................
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/michael-johnson-land-surveyor
You won't believe your eyes
Kent will like it!
And prattle on about its complexity, or some such BS.
😉
I think that it's terrible that anyone would criticize a land surveyor like Michael Johnson for wanting to apply his years of expertise painting lath, hubs, sidewalks, trees, and other stationary objects to canvas. It's true that Michael's palette is a bit limited after the glo colors ran out, but since he is trying to sell to the New Jersey art market where cement overshoes are sculpture, I'm not going to say that he's not on the right tract.
Just because it didn't work in OK doesn't mean that it isn't already on the way to decorate the offices of some brokerage house, law firm, or Russian oligarch in NJ. I will say that I don't like it as well as Mr. Johnson's earlier Bonnie and Clyde series that included this one:
Here's the artist and his blog.
Looks like a normal intelligent NJ person and bent on philosophy.
Robert Hill, post: 437753, member: 378 wrote: https://viewfromaburrow.com/
I sort of enjoy the tags attached to his various paintings, viz.:
Land-Surveyor : Tags: contemporary art, Cracked Earth, kafka, Land-Surveyor, michael johnson, textured painting
Aether: Tags: aether, Aristotle, Blow Torch, contemporary art, fire, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, On the Heavens,painting
Agnes & the Merman : Tags: Agnes and the Merman, Agnes Martin, anselm kiefer, contemporary art, Fairytale, Folktale, Kierkegaard, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, ocean, sea, Soren Kierkegaard, stone
There are many "artists" who have grown to great acclaim over the years and centuries that I simply don't understand or get. I see their work and promptly go "huh? really? THAT sells for millions?"
As for examples, I don't get or understand Jackson Pollock. Much of Vincent Van Gogh's work I think looks ugly.
So there. Now everybody here has proof that I am 100% uncouth.
I'll just stick with my "Velvet Elvis". (Glows under a black light too!!!!)
Please tell me you also have the four dogs playing poker!
At least I can understand and chuckle at those types of "art".
Kent McMillan, post: 437755, member: 3 wrote: I sort of enjoy the tags attached to his various paintings, viz.:
Land-Surveyor : Tags: contemporary art, Cracked Earth, kafka, Land-Surveyor, michael johnson, textured painting
Aether: Tags: aether, Aristotle, Blow Torch, contemporary art, fire, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, On the Heavens,painting
Agnes & the Merman : Tags: Agnes and the Merman, Agnes Martin, anselm kiefer, contemporary art, Fairytale, Folktale, Kierkegaard, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, ocean, sea, Soren Kierkegaard, stone
Kafka's Blow Torch is a great name for a band
FL/GA PLS., post: 437761, member: 379 wrote: I'll just stick with my "Velvet Elvis". (Glows under a black light too!!!!)
Don't scoff. From a past Reuters release:
"At Saturday's auction, marshals sold items ranging from a velvet Elvis painting that went for $1,600 to a barely-driven 1998 white BMW Z-3 convertible that fetched $32,000, both of which had been purchased by the thieves with the stolen money. ``I was prepared to pay whatever it cost,'' said pawnbroker Tom Shaw of Charlotte, who bought the Elvis portrait."
I unloaded all my Velvet Elvis in favor of Jesus Toast. A much more lucrative market, but with far larger returns. 😉
Elvis, Shmelvis; the big money is in......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker
[INDENT]Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a series of sixteen oil paintings, and a 1910 painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. Brown & Bigelow commissioned the 16 painting series in 1903 to advertise cigars....The first painting, Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game, realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015.[/INDENT]
This must represent his view of a pin cushion.
I went to an Art Gallery once, there was a painting I liked. I asked about the price, I was shocked it was so high this was a $5,000 art work. I asked if that price had any wiggle room, was told sorry everything here is a set price.
A Harris, post: 437771, member: 81 wrote: This must represent his view of a pin cushion.
Could be. Personally I think they look like the mushrooms Uncle Paden ate on the pizza which caused his hallucinatory dream in a current post. 😉
The concept of pricing art, antiques and companionship is one of "how much is it worth to you to have it", if even for a fleeting moment of time.
I enjoy them and would not invest seeking profits.
Kent McMillan, post: 437755, member: 3 wrote: I sort of enjoy the tags attached to his various paintings, viz.:
Land-Surveyor : Tags: contemporary art, Cracked Earth, kafka, Land-Surveyor, michael johnson, textured painting
Aether: Tags: aether, Aristotle, Blow Torch, contemporary art, fire, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, On the Heavens,painting
Agnes & the Merman : Tags: Agnes and the Merman, Agnes Martin, anselm kiefer, contemporary art, Fairytale, Folktale, Kierkegaard, Michael Burris Johnson, michael johnson, ocean, sea, Soren Kierkegaard, stone
The Agnes and Merman blog was interesting.
He seems to be a fellow that you could hang out with and have 'coffee and' in a NJ diner into the late night talking about anything from Aristotle to Zen.
As for his art, more power to him.
I always thought this lady was an artist.
You can see some of her gallery here: Gallery Ten-Twenty-Nine California
Took about two seconds to figure out flyin solo's photo entry. Helps if you can remember the first man walking on the moon.
48 years ago today.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/armstrong-walks-on-moon
